As she walked the aisles, MR said in an interview, she sensed a man standing close behind her. She turned to confront him and noticed that he was a good six inches taller than her. He was talking in graphic detail about sexual things he wanted to do to her. “You’re so disgusting, get away from me,” she told him, and hurried off to find her friend.
Still, he stayed close, and for a few tense minutes the two of them locked eyes while she waited in line to pay. When at last he left, she thought that was the end of it – until, back outside in the chill of the winter morning, she felt something cold against the back of her leggings.
The man had ejaculated on her.
“I didn’t know how to react. I wanted to kill this man,” said MR, who was 47 at the time, recalling the horror and helplessness she felt as her friend wiped her off with towels. (The Guardian has verified MR’s identity but is not publishing her full name to protect her privacy.)
Hours later, on the advice of a sister who worked in law enforcement, she fished her soiled leggings out of the garbage and took them back to the store to report what had happened. A clerk listened to her account and, not seeming to realize that MR understood Spanish, shouted to a colleague in a backroom: “Tenemos otra.”
“We’ve got another one.”
The online forums they’re talking about here are the gooning forums and the social media posts from these gooners. The people in these communities call these actions “sharking” or “tagging”.
I’m aware that you’re offended by the framing of the article about gooners. They’re specifically talking about the men who cross boundaries and assault women in the pursuit of gooning, not all people who indulge in gooning.
The problem is that later they associate sharking with gooning as if the two are extremely closely related and then go so far as to label the sexual assaulter in the headline a “gooner” instead of a sharker. As if trying to edge for a long time is somehow a slippery slope that leads to people ejaculating on women in public. It’s disgusting.
Sharking and gooning are two totally unrelated things. One is sexual assault. One is glorified edging.
They found these public assaults posted in gooning communities by the perpetrators.
These men are self-labeled gooners who are assaulting women.
If you’re a gooner and are only edging and NOT assaulting women, this article isn’t talking about you.
The article never mentions any of this being posted to “gooning communities” (unless I missed something). It mentions “an amateur porn site”, “OnlyFans”, and “an incel forum.”
The closest thing I can find to mentioning these being uploaded to gooning communities specifically is this from when it talked about gooners.
But all it says is “online”, it doesn’t say where it’s been posted online. Notably, this paragraph is also before the others, so it could easily be referring to the other places mentioned later and not a fourth location.
Why would they post a direct link to these online gooning communities?
Need some pointers on how to find them?
Huh?
Why would the reporters tell you exactly where these gooning communities are when they’re encouraging public attacks on women?
Are you so curious that you just need to check it out for yourself?
I’ve seen gooners in various porn and sex communities on various forms of social media. Listing out seeing these posts on Onlyfans and such doesn’t rule out that they’re gooners.
What the fuck are you talking about? I’m just disagreeing that it says the article says they’re posted to “gooner communities.” It lists three specific locations and never mentions “gooner communities.” You mentioned that yourself.
They absolutely talk about gooners posting the videos of these attacks on those sites. Those specific locations aren’t immune from gooners posting on those sites.
Why are you going so hard to defend gooners here when we’re all very specifically talking about men in these communities who go out in public and assault women in order to share with those communities? That doesn’t mean all gooners are doing this.